How to Submit a Sitemap to Google (in 4 Easy Steps)

Submitting a sitemap to Google will help the search engine crawl and index your pages. Which is good for your SEO.

In this guide we share:

Let’s dive in.

please note: If you want to learn more about sitemaps first, read our starters guide to website sitemaps.

How to submit a sitemap to Google

Google allows you to submit your sitemap directly in its free tool called Google Search Console (GSC), formerly known as Google Webmaster Tools.

please note: If you do not have a GSC account, you will need to create one. Read us guide to Google Search Console to learn how to set it up.

Here’s a step-by-step guide to submitting a sitemap:

Step 1: Sign in to Google Search Console

First, sign in to your Google Search Console account.

Then, in the upper left corner, select the website for which you want to submit a sitemap. (In case you have more than one property under the same account.)

Step 2: Go to the ‘sitemaps’ report

In the left sidebar menu you will see a “Site maps” reports in the “Indexing” section. Go there.

This is where you can manage all your sitemaps. It contains two main sections:

• “Add a new sitemap”
• “Submitted Sitemaps”

We focus on the first one.

Step 3: Find the URL of your sitemap

There are two basic types of sitemaps: XML sitemaps and HTML sitemaps. HTML sitemaps are not used for SEO purposes, so we will focus on an XML sitemap here.

Here are some effective ways to find your XML sitemap:

• Try the most common post. There is a good chance that your XML...